Mississippi Coast National Heritage Area announces community grant recipients

The coast’s National Heritage Area announces community grant recipients.

Eight grants were awarded across the coast in the Magnolia State’s coastal counties.

Walter Anderson Museum of Art (WAMA): Awarded $65,000.00 to fund exhibits at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art campus and expansion of the coastal living garden.

MS State University – University Television Center: Awarded $72,436.57 to develop four (4) half-hour video documentary that highlights Vietnamese American culture and the community’s struggle to maintain cohesiveness in the face of manmade and natural disasters, and the effects of upward mobility among those who live along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Historic Ocean Springs Association: Awarded $6,480.00 to fund the production and installation of twenty-four (24) Historic and Cultural Markers in Ocean Springs.

City of Pascagoula: Awarded $40,000 to design, install, and market, new and updated existing wayfinding and interpretive signs to the city’s biking/walking and blueway trails.

MS State University – Crosby Arboretum: Awarded $7,326.00 to improve communication for site visitors about Mississippi native plant communities and coastal ecosystems through eight new educational kiosk signs and an outdoor PA system.

Hopeprint Mississippi: Awarded $50,000 to design, install, and market, biking trails within the city of Gulfport.

100 Men Hall: Awarded $23,866.00 to create a recording studio to preserve oral histories, conduct interviews, record live music, and provide a container for the exchange and archiving of creative Mississippi.

City of Biloxi: Awarded $10,000.00 for roofing repairs and related restoration projects for the Old Brick House.